Aethir's February 2025 Recap
Aethir’s February Recap features a rundown of all the key highlights and milestones we’ve achieved in the past month. Our February DePIN journey saw the much-awaited expansion of Aethir’s decentralized cloud to the Solana blockchain and the introduction of Aethir Forge, an exclusive community program to supercharge the growth of the Aethir ecosystem. Furthermore, our team had the opportunity to present Aethir’s unique enterprise-grade GPU-as-a-service model for AI and gaming innovators at Consensus Hong Kong and EthDenver. Additionally, we’ve onboarded various industry trailblazers from the AI, Web3, and gaming sectors into our partner network.
Let’s dive into Aethir’s February 2025 recap to learn more about these exciting achievements and discover how Aethir is building the future of decentralized cloud computing.
Aethir Expands to Solana
The Solana ecosystem is a leader in the blockchain industry, with vibrant AI, gaming, DeFi, and infrastructure sectors. In February, we announced Aethir’s expansion to the Solana blockchain, marking a historical milestone in the growth of our decentralized GPU cloud computing infrastructure. Thanks to our partners from LayerZero and Stargate, the ATH token is now available on Solana, empowering Aethir’s stakeholders with a wide range of new possibilities involving transactions and smart contract interactions across the Solana blockchain.
By enabling ATH transactions on the Solana blockchain, Aethir is simplifying our GPU cloud services for customers whose daily operations are based on Solana. For retail users, trading ATH on the Solana network opens new possibilities, including access to Solana’s famously low transaction fees.
Check our dedicated blog post for more details, including the ATH contract address on Solana.
Introducing Aethir Forge
We’ve introduced Aethir Forge, an innovative program to strengthen our community and grow the Aethir ecosystem’s reach in the AI, gaming, and Web3 sectors. This exclusive community program is designed to onboard the most passionate and dedicated Aethir community members worldwide and promote them as Aethir ForgeMasters. These elite local ambassadors will drive Aethir’s decentralized cloud adoption and increase brand advocacy, awareness, and community growth.
The Aethir Forge program also includes establishing local Forges, which will be Aethir’s community hubs in specific key global markets, run by our ForgeMasters. For their role in the Aethir ecosystem’s international expansion, ForgeMasters will receive various types of valuable rewards. Furthermore, as part of the Aethir Forge program, we introduced the AI Unbundled initiative to create an industry-wide alliance of our top partners in the DePIN and AI space, including decentralized storage and data partners, L1/L2 blockchain networks, and VCs. AI Unbundled aims to offer 360-degree support to any startup building in the Web3 AI space.
Discover all the details on Aethir Forge in our recent blog post.
Ecosystem Growth: Numerous Exciting Partnerships
As the Aethir ecosystem grows, numerous AI, Web3, gaming, and infrastructure innovators join our partner network to leverage Aethir’s DePIN stack for groundbreaking innovations.
In February, we announced an industry-changing partnership with Lyn, a global innovator in AI video production. Aethir will support the Lyn video AI layer, introducing a decentralized video model with accelerated inference, reduced GPU compute costs, AI agent integration, and long-form video generation capability.
SACHI, a free-to-play (F2P), competitive Web3 universe offering extensive gaming and social experience, has joined Aethir’s ecosystem by choosing our DePIN stack as the exclusive GPU compute provider for one of their games.
In the AI agent sector, we announced compute support for AGIXBT, the first autonomous AI corporation. Furthermore, Secret Network, the first decentralized smart contract network built on TEE technology, has joined the Aethir ecosystem.
The Premier PoS layer for Bitcoin, Core DAO teamed up with Aethir’s decentralized GPU cloud to supercharge the development of BTCFi AI agents. B² Network is another AI innovator within the Bitcoin ecosystem that we’ve joined forces with to support them with high-performance GPUs.
Athena joined our partner roster to empower ATH holders with additional staking options. In contrast, we’ve joined the Cronos Builder Program as a GPU compute provider for developers building on the Cronos blockchain.
Additionally, we welcomed Perceptron Network into our ecosystem, empowering AI agents to generate revenue while recognizing, rewarding, and building trust across communities.
Aethir at Consensus Hong Kong and ETH Denver
Aethir’s team participated in Consensus Hong Kong and ETH Denver by joining many exciting AI and DePIN events, where our team members had the opportunity to champion Aethir’s vision of decentralized GPU cloud computing. Mark Rydon, Aethir’s Co-founder and CSO, joined numerous panel discussions and high-profile events organized by Aethir and our partners at these esteemed global Web3 conferences.
At Consensus Hong Kong, we must mention Aethir’s AI Agent Day and the DePIN Day event organized by our partners. Both events featured insightful discussions with various industry leaders and professionals regarding the state of AI, its future, and how the AI agentic economy is driven by DePIN evolution. Another key highlight from Consensus Hong Kong was DeAI Summit, where Mark joined a panel on using decentralized compute for AI innovation to shed light on Aethir’s DePIN value proposition for powering GPU-intensive AI workloads.
ETH Denver was a splendid opportunity to connect with partners, share valuable industry insights, and discuss different visions of the future of AI and Web3 technology. Similarly to Consensus Hong Kong, we organized our own AI Agent Day in Denver to gather the most promising AI agent builders to explore future collaboration opportunities and exchange opinions on the potential of the agentic economy. During the conference, we also organized an exclusive deAI Ecosystem Dinner and an epic rAIve the Night party that brought together our partners and featured incredible entertainment, including AI agents spinning music.
February 2025 was filled with milestones at Aethir, resulting in an exciting mix of high-profile events, product launches, and industry-shaping partnership announcements.
Stay tuned for more of Aethir’s DePIN innovations and updates in March.
